Well, Boston Burger Co. has a lot of burgers including one with peanut butter, fried bananas, and cinnamon. So I'd look there for comfort food burgers. As far as doughnuts go, look for smaller companies like Union Square Donuts; they have a maple bacon donut.

Quick edit: I haven't had either of those specific things, but I've had other things from those places and they were quite good.

For a long time, I've been at too much new music. I'm trying to find the happy medium. My current attempt at a solution is to subscribe to one or two playlists on Spotify that update with new music every week (one is entirely new releases). It works pretty well most of the time, because I'll usually find one or two songs that I like, which gives me new artists to investigate without overwhelming me with a lot of music. Occasionally, though, I won't find any new stuff there that I like, so I'll overplay the stuff from the previous week or have to go find more outside of my system.

Here on Reddit, it's mostly used as a pejorative term. But I've seen plenty of people describe themselves as social justice warriors. I don't know whether it started out as self-description or whether people decided to reclaim it. But at the very least, the concept of social justice is a serious one.

It's funny that you use threats at a public event as an example of how MRAs are silenced by feminists, when Anita Sarkeesian had to cancel her talk because of a threat of mass murder. You say that there is no acceptance of MRA views in society, but if Warren Farrell is representative of them, I don't think that's true, given that his book is labelled an international bestseller. I'd like to see a source on your claim that SJWs aren't treated the way they claim they are (and perhaps a more specific definition of how they think they're treated while we're at it).

As for playing the victim, things that may seem trivial to you may not be to other people. So I don't know that you can really say SJWs "get offended over trivial things".

People who have spoken out against men's rights groups are frequently targets of online harassment, up to and including threats of rape and murder. I don't think you can claim that MRAs try to have a calm, rational discussion.

Assuming that what you refer to as "men's issues" is at least somewhat represented by the contents of The Myth of Male Power, I can confidently say that all those issues are things that feminism addresses. Yet MRAs are not all for it.

I think your title isn't a good description of your argument. What you seem to be arguing, to me, is that MRAs fit the stereotypical definition of an SJW here on Reddit. Your criteria seem to be heavily based on the definition of an SJW that someone in a men's rights subreddit might give. I would agree that MRAs fit all of those criteria. But people who self-identify as SJWs would likely give you a different definition.

The difference here is that SJWs typically are either members of a minority group or are explicitly campaigning for better treatment of a minority group (whether that group is women, African Americans, LGBT groups, or anyone else). The group that MRAs are campaigning for are the most privileged and well off demographic in the world. This really where my problem with your criteria is. I agree at least generally with the other three, but the idea of "playing the victim" just doesn't hold water with me. The people throwing out accusations of playing the victim at minorities rarely have any idea what those minorities actually go through.

I'm trying really hard to avoid bashing MRAs in this post, because I don't want this thread to devolve into an argument about which side is correct. Nobody involved in an argument like that is going to win, nobody is going listen.

First of all, I have to give you props for posting this thread in the first place. It's hard to want to start a discussion when you feel like everyone's against you, but it's awesome that you did it anyway.

I'm going to try each of the bands since I actually haven't heard of any of these, I think. It doesn't really seem fair to give a response without listening to the stuff you think is good.

Bionic Jive - Seems okay. Not amazing, but better than most if not all of the music I would associate with nu-metal. I actually really like some of these guitar parts, though I think the lyrics are little meh. Just a little bland more than anything.

American Head Charge - Honestly, I really hate Slipknot, so any comparison to them is likely to be a bad thing in my eyes. I don't like their production as much as Bionic Jive's. None of the instruments or the singer have as good a sound. Again, it's not as bad as some stuff I've heard, but nothing really makes me want to listen to them. Guitar work is pretty generic; it sounds like the stuff I wrote jamming with my buddies in ten minutes.

Apartment 26 - Some interesting elements here, but the production hides it. One of the things I associate with nu-metal a lot, and they have it, is a lot of extraneous noise in the recordings. It really just distracts from anything interesting that might be happening with the instruments or the vocals. I liked the second song I tried a little better, but their guitar tone is not doing them any favors when they mix it with less heavy sections.

My Ticket Home - I actually like this less than the other ones I listened to. I'm not a huge hardcore fan, so that may have something to do with it.

Downthesun - Again, I don't like the guitar tone or the riffs really at all. If it seems like I'm focusing in on guitar for a lot of these, that's what I play, so it tends to be what I hear the most when I listen.

It's really tough, man. I'm trying not to be too harsh, because I'm a big believer in listening to what you like, and I don't want to you to feel like I'm saying you shouldn't listen to it. I listened to a lot of metal at one point in my life, and I loved it. With these bands in particular, I just feel like there are a lot of changes they could make, pretty easily, that would make their music a lot more enjoyable for me. But nu-metal in general never really stacked up for me against some other sub-genres. For me, it takes the blandest parts of a bunch of other styles and mixes them. I can't listen to a lot of the bands I used to like now, but I can still find the parts that I liked about them. There were just never any parts of nu-metal I liked.

For me, it always just felt very artificial. Because it got so popular so quickly, it was like there was an image all the bands had to conform to. As one of the other commenters pointed out, there is a sense in the packaging and the band names they to be a "cool" nu-metal band, you had to have the image of not caring about that stuff. The problem is that, on top of then having bad album art and silly band names, you still have a genre where image and style is more important than the music, even though the image is "having no image". A lot of the heavier, abrasive elements or edgy lyrics are there to get your attention or to create controversy, not because they're meaningful or what the band actually believes.

I've read basically everything in the Ender series (both Game and Shadow sub-series). All of them vary from essential reads (Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker) to just entertaining. But there's nothing bad in either of those series. As others have mentioned, his short stories tend to be very good as well.

In general I would say that his earlier writing is much better than his later stuff. As he went along his politics and personal beliefs starting becoming more and more the central theme of the works rather than the background.

If one of the books you got is Empire, you should read it. It's a decent political thriller, but there's a sort of grotesque pleasure to be found in picking apart the sheer amount of soapboxing and propaganda it has. Suffice it say, Orson Scott Card is not happy with the modern Democratic Party.

I would highly recommend the X-Wing series. There are two different authors who have written parts of it, Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston. Both are great, and they'll fit in nicely with the Thrawn series. IIRC, Stackpole and Timothy Zahn (of the Thrawn trilogy) are friends and reference each other's characters in their own Star Wars books. There are currently ten books in the series.

I'd also second Darth Bane, especially if you played Kotor and enjoyed it.

I dunno, there's a lot of sex in the second book for a YA fantasy novel. It may not be as dark or graphic as something like Game of Thrones, but it's certainly not YA either. And it fits all of OPs other requirements really well.

I'm a little late to the thread so I don't know if anyone will respond, but I have a question. It seems to me like more people would be out late and using the late-night service during the summer when it's nice and warm. Is it feasible to only offer late night service during certain months of the year?

Yeah, that's probably about how much time I spent on the homework. I basically spent all of my free time during the day working on it with another guy in my class. I highly recommend working in a group, or at least with one other person, if you aren't already.

The curriculum essentially doesn't change year to year other than, maybe, a topic of interest that you talk about at the end of the semester for a couple days. I don't think what we talked about ended up on the final in any detail. They typically use midterms/finals from past years as practice finals, so yeah they basically don't change at all.

Yeah, I thought the midterm last semester was actually a little easier than a lot of the homework. Obviously, the limited time is a big factor in how difficult the proofs can be. If you study up on the homework assignments and understand all of them pretty well, you shouldn't have too much to worry about on the midterm. I also recommend making flash cards or something to study definitions, as we had a short answer section of questions like, "What's the definition of an open set?". If you memorize that stuff, it's basically free points.

I took it last semester. I had Chris Kottke as my instructor; he was a great professor. I don't know if he's teaching it this semester or not, but you may be able to go ask him for help regardless if your professor isn't helpful.

It was by far the hardest class I took last semester. I ended up getting an A in the class. The curve is pretty good so you'll likely end up passing even if you do pretty poorly. I think it ended up being basically a letter grade bump at the end of the semester. I got B/B- on most homeworks and beat the class average on the midterm/final by at least ten points.

That said, I worked my ass off for that class. I spent hours and hours every week working on the homework. I went to office hours at least once a week, if not more. I studied even more on top of that for the midterm and the final. I can't overstate this enough. It's a hard class, and it's probably different from anything you've ever done before. It makes you think in a whole different way, and that takes some getting used to. You basically just need to study your textbook, go over homework problems/solutions, and talk to the professor as much as possible until you feel like you understand what's going on.

I thought the midterm was relatively easy (compared to what it could've been), but I still didn't have good answers for one or two of the proofs. The final I thought was super hard, much harder than the midterm or the practice finals we were given.

I'm sorry I don't have better news for you. I felt the same last semester. Even knowing the class's reputation, I was blown away by how difficult the concepts were to understand. All I can say is to keep trying. You will get it eventually if you put in the time and effort. Or at least you'll get it well enough to pass the class, which only requires you understand as much as your average classmate.

Good luck. If you have any questions, feel free to respond here or send me a message. I'm happy to try and help, though obviously I'm not the resource that a professor would be.

You're definitely leading the ear toward a progression in D Major, and you could easily just call this D Major with a color note thrown in for fun. In terms of writing chord progressions to follow this: if you use this riff as the intro to a song, it won't sound out of place for you to throw in that color note anywhere else in the song either. So you could write a pretty standard progression in D Major, but then follow it up with an E Major or Fsus2 or something like that.

Finishing up my listen as I type this. Initial impression: I like it a lot. It sounds like a blend of their earlier sound with the sound from The King Is Dead. There are also a fair amount of new sounds on here for them. Lyrically, Easy Come, Easy Go is pretty standard Decemberists, but the almost surf-rock guitar sound certainly isn't. There is heavier presence of a choir and a string section, whereas their older albums would have organs and accordions (as another commenter pointed out).

I think it definitely could have been shorter, with a couple songs released afterward as an EP or something. The interesting thing to me is that a lot of the people in this thread are pointing out different songs as their favorites. I feel like there would be a lot of disagreement as to which songs to cut, which honestly is indicative of a pretty strong album overall. They tried to do a lot of different things in one album, and that can be hard to pull off.

I'm working in a foreign country for six months. I just got here yesterday. I don't speak the language. I'm far away from all the people who would usually help me through tough times like this. This job was an incredible opportunity and I'm so grateful to be here. But I'm scared and lonely, and I don't know how I'm going to make it through six months here. Please, pray that I find the strength to handle all the problems that come with opportunity.

Related, please pray that my girlfriend forgives me for leaving her for such a long time.

The Parish Cafe is easily one of my favorite places in Boston. Great drinks list, amazing sandwiches, the best onion rings I've ever had. They have another location on the corner of Mass Ave and Tremont as well.

Dynamics is really rigorous and not super useful for anything. It basically is supposed to teach you how to think rigorously about classical physics, to prepare you for the same approach in grad school as it applies to electricity and magnetism and quantum mechanics. I wouldn't take it if you aren't a physics major.

It depends on the specific field you're looking at. However, the general trend is that not many jobs are available. This is anecdotal, but a professor of mine told me that there are about six job openings in my field in the U.S. every year. So it's a pretty common sort of stat.

I'm not really sure what you mean by your first point, to be honest. Men obviously have the right to draw whatever they want, but the issue with the comic artist is a little more complex than that. What I'm saying is that some guy wanting to publish sexualized images of women is a different fight from Kim publishing pictures of herself, and I don't really think you can compare the two.

In any case, I think the bulk of your comment revolves around the differences between the New Zealand video and the New York video. The definition of harassment can definitely be a little murky, but I can't help but feel that following a woman down the street and making comments or repeatedly asking for her number is definitely harassment. I just watched the New York walkthrough again, and while there are a few comments in there that might be murky, the vast majority are clearly harassment. While the racial implications, intended or not, are unfortunate, it doesn't change the fact that women are frequently harassed while walking on the street. These actions are harassment, not men expressing their sexuality.

The consequences on the two sides of this issue are just completely disproportionate. Nobody in that street harassment video was punished or even identified. The artist from the comic wasn't fined or hurt, and Marvel basically said they intend to use him again for variant covers. These men are not being subjugated in any way. People are merely suggesting that women don't like it when these types of things happen, when they are harassed or see overly sexualized artwork on comics they might want to buy. This isn't a free speech issue.

On the other side, women who are harassed on the street no longer feel safe walking through their city. Women who work in STEM fields have been harassed and in some case assaulted. This isn't a free speech issue. This about the physical and mental safety of half of our population. The article you linked to about the New Zealand video itself suggests that the fact that nobody spoke to her while she was walking is a good thing.

You're right that men and women often have different definitions of harassment. How do we change this? When women point at something and say "That's harassment", men stop doing it. Women define what makes them feel uncomfortable. End of story.